The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, America Makes has unveiled the first legacy CNC machine tool, Hybrid LENS CNC Machine, in a private event at TechSolve’s headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Led by Optomec and backed by TechSolve, Lockheed Martin, MachMotion and U.S. Army Benét Labs, the technology is a combination of Optomec’s LENS 3D printing technology and subtractive manufacturing from MachMotion to “cost effectively bridge the gap between additive and subtractive manufacturing processes”.